Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Bread - The Cunning Punning Baker

Again from Bread: A Slice of History, by Marchant, Reuben and Alcock, p.51:

The construction of the Albion flour mill in Southwark, South London in 1786 was a key event both in the development of milling and in the progress of the Industrial Revolution. It might be termed a millstone milestone. ...

Authors after my own heart!

3 comments:

  1. you could [and should! i would love to read it!] write a bread book. for a working title, might i suggest the baking doggerlist?

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  2. Not likely, hipparchia; I simply don't know enough about baking bread to presume to write a book about it. But thanks for the thought!

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  3. well, i was thinking more along the lines of a 'my [mis]adventures in bread-baking' series of anecdotes - or tall tales - than a how-to [or how-not-to] manual! i love your storytelling.

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